It’s the most overlooked story of the college football offseason, hidden beneath the never-ending drone of pay for play and the transfer portal and even more legal gymnastics. Lincoln Riley may have finally figured it out at Southern California. Or at least, he’s on the road to it. The same road that Pete Carroll used to build the Trojans into ...
The Colorado Rockies resisted the urge year after year, loss after loss, and failure after failure. They knew their historically dismal start wasn’t manager Bud Black’s fault. They also knew Sunday that with a 7-33 record that they had no choice. Just one day after Rockies GM Bill Schmidt gave a vote of confidence to Black on Saturday afternoon, hoping ...
Kyle Schwarber extended his on-base streak to 46 games with a pair of home runs and Zack Wheeler worked seven dominant innings as the visiting Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-0 on Sunday night. Schwarber hit a solo homer in the first and a two-run blast in the eighth, moving into a tie with the New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge for the ...
The Indiana Pacers have a commanding 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals series against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Myler Turner and the Pacers produced a dominant performance in the 129-109 Game 4 victory over the Cavaliers on Sunday night. Turner had 20 points and seven rebounds for Indiana. Pascal Siakam finished with 21 points and six rebounds in the rout. ...
Global stock markets are soaring in the wake of the trade truce between the U.S. and China. The agreement, announced early Monday, implements a 90-day cooling-off period between the world’s two largest economic superpowers, bringing a temporary end to their tariff war that last month triggered a massive financial market sell-off. U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, which were jacked to ...
House Republicans released a sweeping plan late on Sunday to curb who gets Medicaid coverage and roll back former President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate, among other measures. The Energy & Commerce Committee, which has broad jurisdiction, including over federal health programs, telecommunications and energy, was tasked with finding at least $880 billion in spending cuts to pay for ...
NFL fans now know the biggest free-agent acquisitions and top draft picks of their favorite teams. Now, they are just waiting on one more offseason milestone: the 2025 schedule release. The NFL has made its schedule release something of a marquee offseason event. It doesn’t get the same type of rabid attention as free agency and the NFL draft, but ...
Given the choice between winning ugly or losing with style, NBA coaches and players will take winning ugly. If it were January, maybe losing with style has its benefit. But in May during the NBA playoffs, when the grind and slog of almost every possession make even the best teams look bad, the choice is obvious. Winning trumps all. The ...
The NCAA selection committee has spoken, and the 2025 NCAA Softball Tournament field is set. Sixty-four teams will begin their road to a potential appearance in the Women’s College World Series at the end of May and beginning of June in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The teams included in the field are the 31 automatic qualifiers for conference champions and 33 ...
The field has been set for the 2025 NCAA softball tournament, which means the road to the Women’s College World Series is set, too. As was expected going into the selection show, the SEC dominated: Fourteen of the conference’s 16 teams are heading to the postseason, led by SEC tournament co-champions Texas A&M and Oklahoma, the top two seeds of ...